The week in photos, Feb. 24 - March 2, 2014

Crisis in Crimea

Pro-Russia protesters hold a banner reading "Russia will not forget us! Crimea was and will be Russian!" during a rally in front of the local parliament building on Feb. 28, 2014 in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine's strategic peninsula. Tensions over the region have escalated after armed men took control of the area's two airports.